They tired Jim and Eureka out, and although the field of battle was thickly covered with
mashed and disabled Mangaboos, our animal friends had to give up at last and allow themselves to be driven to the mountain.
With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they
mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints.
Mash his face!" That guy with the specs was I, and I got my face
mashed, too, though I had the presence of mind to take off my glasses at the first.
So he went back to the Circumlocution Office, and once more sent up his card to Barnacle junior by a messenger who took it very ill indeed that he should come back again, and who was eating mashed potatoes and gravy behind a partition by the hall fire.
'Jenkinson,' to the mashed potatoes messenger, 'Mr Wobbler!'
She lugged it home, cut it up, and boiled it in the big pot,
mashed some of it salt and butter, for dinner.
His fourth day at his work Jurgis saw a man stumble while running in front of a car, and have his foot
mashed off, and before he had been there three weeks he was witness of a yet more dreadful accident.
The old abbot could not speak a word, for tears and the chokings in his throat; without utterance of any sort, he folded me in his arms and
mashed me.
A pile of
mashed potato with lashings of butter suffices as glue to stick your shattered self back together.
But, like planting your spring bulbs too soon and then being caught out by an overnight frost, I feel there is no rush to ditch the comfort foods - in particular
mashed potatoes.
Mr M's pie was served on a bed of
mashed potato, topped with a giant Yorkshire pudding which was stuffed full of carrot and swede mash, baby roast potatoes, a pig in a blanket and a stick of crackling.